Gordon Hessler was born in Germany, the son of a Danish mother and an English father. Educated in England, he moved to the United States while in his late teens and spent several years working in documentaries. At Universal, I guess because I had an English accent, Hessler was placed under contract to Alfred Hitchcock and went to work on the master director's video series Alfred Hitchcock Presents and The Alfred Hitchcock Hour, climbing the ladder from story reader to associate producer and ...[Read Story]